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Does it not run on Fedora? You could probably use alien to convert the deb to an rpm. Or just unpack the tgz on github and run it: https://github.com/314r/joliebulle/releases/tag/3.7.3
It looks like there's also a version 4 that's still FOSS that I assume would be targeted to new platforms. But I only know enough French to get the gist of their site, I don't know the more technical words to figure out what's changed.
I tried running the tgz a few months ago. It needed a shitload of deprecated python dependancies, I'm not well versed in python so after the 10th pip install I gave up.
Version 4 is unfortunately closed source and paid.
This says it's free and 90% MIT license, doesn't it? https://joliebulle.org/opensource
Or just use toolbox.
I had a quick look at the PKGSRC on AUR. It uses QtWebKit which is the biggest stumbling block, given that most or perhaps even all distributions killed that for security reasons. I recently found out that an "AI and automation" company forked and revived QtWebKit, so there is a tiny chance distros will package it again but don't hold your breath. There was a promising fork once and I'd guess there will be an attitude by packagers that they've fallen for a fork before and that never got off the ground.